British Reply to Terrorist Action With Martial Law Decree; Greek Situation Renews Budget Dispute

JERUSALEM, March 2-More than 250,000 Palestine Jews were put under the iron grip of martial law tonight as the British Army arrested 60 persons in the first, screening of suspects in yesterday's bloody series of bomb and gun attacks which claimed 21 lives.

The Palestine Government imposed military rule for the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and its suburb of Ramat Gan; nearby Petah Tiqva, the oldest modern Jewish community in Palestine; Benet Beraq and numerous communal settlements in the area and the Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem, where 15,000 Jew reside.

Maj. Gen. R.N. Gale, the newly appointed Military Governor of Tel Aviv, said the main objective of the marital law decree was to "paralyze and eradicate" the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground resistance groups.